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Jaguar’s XJ sedan is a full-size luxury four-door with a performance-bred pedigree. It’s the brand's largest and most luxurious vehicle, and one of its most high-impact designs, with an aggressive fastback profile and a rakish front end. Top competitors include the Audi A8, BMW 7-Series, and Mercedes-Benz S-Class. Certain models can also be judged against the Porsche Panamera and even... Read More Below »

Jaguar’s XJ sedan is a full-size luxury four-door with a performance-bred pedigree. It’s the brand's largest and most luxurious vehicle, and one of its most high-impact designs, with an aggressive fastback profile and a rakish front end. Top competitors include the Audi A8, BMW 7-Series, and Mercedes-Benz S-Class. Certain models can also be judged against the Porsche Panamera and even the more expensive Aston Martin Rapide.

Along with the mid-size XF that debuted prior, the radically restyled XJ reset expectations for the Jaguar brand. It had come to be seen as an aging and irrelevant brand, overshadowed by its Land Rover and Range Rover siblings, but fresh designs in recent years have allowed Jaguar to go on growing right alongside Land Rover.

The Jaguar XJ is a large four-door sedan that was redesigned in 2011 and given new drivetrain choices for 2013. For the 2013 model year the XJ received both optional all-wheel drive and a supercharged 3.0-liter V-6 engine--features it desperately needed to broaden its appeal to buyers in cold climates, not to mention those who didn't necessarily feel the need for a V-8 in their large luxury sedan. The V-6 offers 340 horsepower and up to 28 miles per gallon highway fuel economy.

Jaguar has added special editions of the current XJ, such as the Portfolio. For the 2013 model year, the limited-edition, long-wheelbase XJL Ultimate, priced from $155,875, also entered the U.S. Only 30 examples were imported, and Jaguar called the model a “high-performance bespoke limousine.”

An actual high-performance model, the Jaguar XJR, was made available for the 2014 model year. It offers a 550-horsepower version of the supercharged V-8, as well as suspension, styling, and interior upgrades. The XJR replaced the XJ Supersport model in the lineup.

Jaguar made no significant changes to the XJ for the 2015 model year.

XJ history

The XJ has been around for much of Jaguar's recent history, but it has changed very much over the years. Over five generations, and in production since 1968, the XJ has ranged in style from avant garde to stodgy, and it recently went back to the avant garde, style-forward look when the latest generation was launched for 2011.

The first-generation XJ was a very long-lived model that debuted in 1968 and ran all the way through to 1986. The "Series III" of 1979 might be considered a second generation by itself, or perhaps a very heavily edited version of the first, with a new roofline and sheetmetal, and changes to virtually every other component. Six- and twelve-cylinder models, and a distinct Daimler version were made, as well as a two-door coupe.

The original and classic XJ design was updated to poor effect, in 1973, then again more comprehensively in 1979. The underlying vehicle had a very long shelf life, despite poorly executed additions, but those weren't the XJ's biggest problems. Despite its lovely ride and compact size, the XJ's meager interior space and electrical problems made it temperamental at best--which makes used XJs an absolute handful and remarkably expensive to maintain in their original state. Some of the mechanical problems, if not the electrical ones, were solved in the day with popular kits that allowed the adaptation of a small-block Chevy V-8 engine to replace the sixes or V-12s originally fitted.

The second-generation XJ was developed under the chassis code XJ40. With it, Jaguar attempted to fix the model's flaws while keeping the things that made it unique—the muscular shape, purposeful stance, and youthful image. Most of that was achieved, although the square headlights didn't do the design any favors. This generation persisted through 1994, with long-wheelbase and V-12 models arriving later in that time period.

After the Ford Motor Company acquired Jaguar in 1989, a revised version of the XJ appeared in 1994; Ford's influence included a return to circular headlight units, part of the brand's storied past.Ford also made big alterations to the manufacturing processes that produced the XJ, improving quality when the refreshed second-gen car arrived and continuing to make strides in that area as time went on. Jaguar also added its first supercharged car, the XJ6R, in this time frame. In a final touch-up before its dramatic reinvention in 2004, in 1997 the XJ added its first V-8 engine and a five-speed automatic to supercharged versions, while all cars received a new interior.

The third-generation Jaguar XJ emerged in the 2004 model year, completely reworked with new aluminum construction techniques--bonded and riveted like airplane fuselages--that transformed the car's structural quality. Strangely, Jaguar gave the 2004-2010 XJ an even more traditional look than its predecessor, and it virtually fell off the radar among luxury-car buyers faced with avant garde new mdoels of the BMW 7-Series and the Audi A8. Still, the XJ's performance never was better, with V-8 and supercharged V-8 engines mated with one of the first six-speed automatics ever built. Reliability was so improved, Jaguar leaped to the top of quality ratings from J.D. Power; rear-seat room was so improved, adults found ample space in back. In all, the switch to aluminum gave the Jaguar some of the lightness it desperately needed to distinguish itself.

With the fundamentals in place, Jaguar set out on a radical path for the fourth-generation 2011 XJ. Ditching the formal look, the newest four-door looks utterly modern, from its rakish front end to the sexy kicked-up tail. The cabin wears lots of gloss piano-black trim, leather, wood and chrome--and though it sacrifices some space for the roofline, it's still a usefully roomy sedan. Handling and steering are superb, deft, light to the touch. And with a choice of a 385-horsepower V-8 or a 510-hp supercharged V-8, straight-line performance is thrilling.

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